 Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing...  Natural history. Birds - Стр. 265авторы: Philip Henry Gosse - 1849Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - Страниц: 470
...elector of Cologne's hawks thirty-five years before. CHAP. VI. Of the Bittern or Mire-drum. J. HOSE who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of...from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - Страниц: 470
...CHAP. VI. ..] . , i Of the Bittern or Mire-drum. JL HOSE who have walked in an evening by the sedgv sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety...from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - Страниц: 510
...by the elector of Cologne's hawks thirty-five years before. CHAPTER VI. OF THE BITTERN OR MIRE-DRUM. THOSE who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water fowl-, the loud scream of the wiW goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - Страниц: 498
...-f.ii I.! ,: ,*:,iI. OF THE BITTERN OR MIRE DRUM'I" ' .' ." . ' . ,TTrT . . . .::,: .i'M' v l'i '' THoSE who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrei- ' quented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water . fowl ; the loud scream... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - Страниц: 522
...former ;, it also appears to have a strong attachment to the neighbourhood of the ocean. — Wilson. THOSE who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides...notes from different waterfowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - Страниц: 422
...though it may possibly * Ornith.by Ray, p. 283. be somewhat tinged with poetry. " Those," says he, " who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of...from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lap-wing, and the tremulous neighing of... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - Страниц: 586
...rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different waterfowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jack snipe. But of all those sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the Bittern.... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - Страниц: 566
...Rennie describes it in a very picturesque manner. ' Those,' he says, ' who have walked in a sum' mer's evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented ' rivers must remember a variety of notes from differ' ent water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, ' the croaking of the mallard, the whining... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - Страниц: 406
...though it may possibly * Ornith. by Ray, p. 283. be somewhat tinged with poetry. "Those," says he, " who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of...from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lap-wing, and the tremulous neighing of... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1836 - Страниц: 296
...from observation, is more minute, but is perhaps somewhat tinged with poetry. " Those," says he, " who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of...from different water-fowl ; the loud scream of the Wild Goose, the croaking of the Mallard, the whining of the Lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of... | |
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